Clarke Books

This book has 180 different sauces, from foundation and classic sauces, to marinades, fruit sauces, pasta sauces,etc. There's even a section entitled "what goes with what." A basic, useful, and interesting resource to have in your kitchen library.

I had the honor of being Mr. Clarke's music student in College, and was able to pick up the book in the college store. His treatment and knowledge of American Music is truly remarkable. His writing is lucid and enjoyable, and his research is very well documented. I highly recommend this book to all students of American Music.

The Images of America series are great nostalgia books.

I gave this title to an 80 year-old friend who grew up in Eureka, and she couldn't stop exclaiming about how much she enjoyed it and how many memories it caused to come flooding back into her memory.

This series makes great "thank you" or "welcome to the neighborhood" gifts.

This collection of poems, which was actually a study by Clarke for his novel George and Rue, Is a masterfully crafted tale of two ill fated brothers. Told from their perspective as poems they wrote, the language gets a little rough ended, but is put together beautifully. Read it again and again to truly grasp this dark portrait of the minds of two accidental killers.

It is an interesting experience to read short stories from an author like Clarke. The stories in this book are as grande and impressive as the novels he writes. This collection also shows the remarkable breadth in imagination and talent that he also possesses. A good read that I recommend to anyone who takes interest in science fiction that is scaringly close to reality, and in philosophy.

I am interested in Thomistic metaphysics and having read several books I must say that I found this book extremely helpful. Fr Clarke explains the principles of Thomas' thought in an easy to understand fashion and then convincingly applies them to modern thought. What is especially important in this work is Clarkes development of St Thomas' idea of being as a "substance in relation" which be defintion has a communicative value. This theme is stressed often in the book and is useful in having a response to skeptics of knowledge about the material world. Fr Clarke also gives compelling modern versions of Thomas' 5 Ways of arguing for the existence of God. Well done.

John Charles Ryle was a rare man - an evangelical Bishop of the Church of England in England in the last half of the 19th Century. Disrali made him Bishop of Liverpool as a last act of defiance as British Prime Minister.

Ryle was an amazing man whose many books are continually being republished for the next generation. His Expository Thoughts on the Gospels are all the work of a first rate mind - a man who communicates that which he loves so well - Jesus Christ. Of all his writings his passion for Jesus burns most brightly through these Expository Thoughts on the Gospels. Mark's Gospel is no exception. Originally bundled together with Matthew's in Ryle's writings, this recent publication takes the relevent parts for this short Gospel.

Buy his one, then buy the rest.

The Face of Friendship written by a Canadian Jesuit Bill Clarke takes place on a farm in Ontario and describes the community that existed there among the Jesuit Priests and religious Sisters and both laymen and laywomen. I have not finished the book as yet, but basically it focuses on the special friendship that ensues between Bill Clarke the Jesuit and one of the members of the community, Byron Dunn, as they share the same small room in one of the buildings on the property. Byron has his own unique background, gifts and difficulties, but the friendship is one where each influences the other on an equal plane. This book was chosen by a study/prayer group of which I am part, and I expected it to be a dry, boring type of experience. But thus far, it is the type of book that I can't wait to continue reading.

A Fall Of Moondust, by the late Arthur C. Clarke (Childhood's End, Dolphin Island) is really a suspense disaster story that takes place on the moon, science fictional in the setting and the author's speculation, clever at the time, that deep dust in the low-gravity craters would be similar to liquid water on Earth. And so the premise is that a "boat," carrying passengers across a crater on the moon, sinks in the dust. Rescue operations are oviously trickier than on Earth, communication through the dust seemingly impossible. Suspense mounts as engineers devise means to locate the boat, communicate with it, provide air, and commence rescue operations all while the passengers await their fate. One of my favorite sf novels due to the effective blend of suspense, the clever sci-fi idea, and Clarke's scientific accuracy.

A Fall Of Moondust, by the late Arthur C. Clarke (Childhood's End, Dolphin Island) is really a suspense disaster story that takes place on the moon, science fictional in the setting and the author's speculation, clever at the time, that deep dust in the low-gravity craters would be similar to liquid water on Earth. And so the premise is that a "boat," carrying passengers across a crater on the moon, sinks in the dust. Rescue operations are oviously trickier than on Earth, communication through the dust seemingly impossible as the passengers await their fate. One of my favorite sf novels due to the effective blend of suspense, the clever sci-fi idea, and Clarke's scientific accuracy.